Wedding Photography Gallery - Image 28

Canon EOS 5D - 160th/sec - F9 - ISO 250 - Shutter Priority - Posed

Taken just after the previous image and you can see the shutter speed has stayed the same but the aperture has closed to f9 to allow less light in.

The reason for this is that the original of this "cropped" shot was taken at 95mm which included a lot of external white walls, which in turn meant the meter in my camera had to adjust for this bright light by closing the aperture.

It can be a neat trick if you intend to crop a bit as you will fool the camera into giving you more workable metering settings other than if I was to crop into the dark areas with the zoom lens.

Does that make sense?

What I mean is...if I zoomed in with the lens rather than cropping, the scene would be darker and I may just get 60th/sec at f9, and the couple would be well exposed in the sunlight.

However, by zooming out and letting in more light from the bright walls, the camera adjusts for this and sets a shutter speed of 160th/sec and the couple are still well exposed...better?

This does work best with evaluative metering by the way. You could use spot metering to save all this messing about but that takes more time.

At the end of the day, just make sure to watch your settings as the light changes.

Lens 70-200 2.8 L at 95mm

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